Tori Black- Exclusive Interview-“I’m surprised there is racism against some types of porn.”

Story & cover Courtesy of Xcitement Mag. See the whole mag including Tori’s layout of naked pics there Xcitement.com
Interview by C. Loftus
Photos Courtesy of LA Direct

At the TOP of her career, having won tons of awards and appearing on a shelf full of movies that have her name in the title, Tori Black took a break. She took a hiatus from her work as a porn performer. Everyone asked WHY? Because she had a baby! We talk about her new life and her new way of working. We chatted about her views on black/white sex in porn. And Tori told me what’s coming up with her future in the industry. Is she going to go back to shooting porn scenes? Read on to find out.
Congratulations on your baby!
Thank you.We do miss you though. But I totally understand why you are staying home right now.
You have to go with what feels right. Now we are getting to the point where I have days that I want to go be myself. I’m taking it everyday as it goes and seeing how I feel. That’s the most important part. If I would have gone back to work when everybody else wanted me to go back to work, I would be on set crying because I wanted to be home instead.I understand. You need time. Obviously you were pregnant for nine months.
And my body needed time to go back, which takes a few months. Then I have to finish breastfeeding.

Yeah, what’s wrong with you! Why aren’t you doing triple anal yet? (Laughs)
(Laughs) Yes, I have different priorities now. The baby is a priority.I hear that you are slowly working your way back in. So I don’t really know what you are doing and not doing. You are doing appearances right now. Are you doing scenes yet?
I do appearances and I do solo scenes for my site that is currently under construction (ToriBlack.com) I am giving my site a makeover and when it is ready to go it will have a good amount of new scenes. I think we are doing ten to fifteen new scenes immediately and then it will be updated every week with new personal videos that I upload myself. They taught me how to do that, so I can now do it from home which makes me happy. I am going to be doing live shows from home bi-weekly. So that is what I am doing right now.That’s great!
It’s fantastic. I like that I get too be the boss. I control everything that happens. And when I want to work I work and when I don’t wanna work, I don’t. It makes everything so much more genuine. When I was working constantly all the time, there were days when I didn’t want to go to work. And in the area of work that I do, when you don’t want to go to work it shows. And its not good, for you, the viewers or the other talent. It’s really great now that I always get to be happy at work because I get to pick my own schedule.

Yep. It’s not quite the same thing as someone who wakes up and says I don’t really feel like working today, on my job as a receptionist, but I’ll go in anyway and answer the phone and put the calls through.
Exactly. I can say, today I am really horny and I feel like a freak and I wanna go shoot something. And the nice thing is that since I am shooting solos I really do get to fly by the seat of my pants. If I wake up feeling frisky I can video tape something that day. I’m also really glad that what I am doing is all for ToriBlack.com. Everyone that I’ve worked for has been great to me over the years, but it’s really nice to be able to do something from me to my fans and give back in my own kind of way.It makes it so much more fun when you do it when you feel like doing it, not when you have to do it.
Exactly. When I go to shooting girl/girl again or boy/girl again, if I ever do. I can’t say when or if its going to happen because everyday I wake up and do what my heart tells me to. But if I do, it’s going to be for me, for ToriBlack.com or for a DVD I’m making. I wanna give my fans a chance to see how I want to show my sex life. You have these fantasies that companies want to show you as. I just want to show who I am, just me just exactly how I am all the time. That means a lot to me. It’s actually a little bit more nerve-racking. When you are doing a fantasy at least you know, this is how we want things to be, A, B & C, and as long as you do that you have met the fantasy. But when you are being organic and being yourself, it’s a little more raw. Because I am not trying to be a fantasy. I am just being me.It’s more intimate with your fans when you are just being your sexual self.
Yes, I’m not being told to open up. I’m not being told to put it in my butt. (Laughs) I’m doing it for me and that makes a big difference. Because no one is hiring me, I am hiring other people, it is a totally different feel.

You are the boss.
I am the boss! It’s great. Not only that, but my man shoots everything for me, so someone that is so intimate with me, who knows the real me on every level, so that kind of perspective is also something new. He catches me at intimate moments when I don’t even know he is going to bring the camera in. I think people are going to love what they see. It’s a lot more like having a girlfriend at home and you walk in and catch her in the shower, because that is exactly what he does.You know what is funny, when you were just saying about him shooting and catching you off guard. I was picturing what would I like to see, and that is exactly what I would like to see. I want to see you taking a shower, but not a “porn star” shower. Taking a shower, washing your hair and then getting out dripping wet and wrapping a towel around your head and saying, I didn’t know you were there with the camera!
That is the kind of thing that is going to be there. Me eating my breakfast. Not me eating my breakfast in a porn movie.And there is such a difference!
I like that it’s going to be so much more personal.What is he going to catch you doing that you are going to say, no, you can’t shoot that?
I’m doing everything I can to not veto anything. I want it to be as natural as I can. If that means some embarrassing moments, so be it. That’s what makes it real, right?Yep. That’s what shows that it is real. So you are having sort of the Tori Black Realty Show. I like that.
I think that is something that porn is missing. You can see videos on my site where you can actually see me blushing. You’ll never see that in a porn movie.

Your site is going to be a big hit. I can’t wait to check it out. I noticed that you have THREE Fleshlights. They have done your mouth, your pussy & your ass. Your holes are very popular!
(Laughs) Well thank you I try to keep myself together.You must play with yourself. Have you tried them all? I know I would.
When they first came out they had me eat my own vagina for a Fleshlight video and it was a little strange.It’s kind of strange, but also kind of cool. You can also kiss yourself.
I used to be embarrassed, when I was younger, about what my pussy looks like, to now I have it molded and being sold on every continent almost.So I guess it wasn’t as bad as you thought.
(Laughs) No, it was not as bad as I thought.I guess it actually looks pretty good.
There you go. Nice turn around for me.

I noticed that there is voting going on to pick the next Fleshlight Girl. (Kayden Kross, Alexis Texas or Asphyxia Noir) Are you voting or do you wanna abstain?
I abstain. I always abstain. Things like that always get you in trouble. I like to be nice to everybody, and I don’t know the Asphyxia girl. I’ve never met her. But I know Kayden and Alexis and they are both cool girls. If I were to pick between the two that would just not be nice of me. So I just say let the fans decide and I will stand behind whoever wins.

See you are very politically correct. There is one topic that comes up all the time, that is very divisive in porn and that is interracial sex. Do you face any problems because you so happily do interracial?
I never faced any issues with that. There are people who say what they want about interracial, and I have found some racism, but as far as at work is concerned, never. I’m surprised there is racism against some types of porn. In my opinion if you are watching porn that makes you a more liberal person.You would think, huh?
Surprised someone watching porn would be judgmental about what color we are. Not to mention that the word interracial is used to describe black and white, why isn’t used to describe a scene between an Asian and a Mexican? People don’t put the interracial label on movies like that. It doesn’t make any sense to me, and that is the biggest issue I have come across personally. People always want to know why my name is Tori Black, if I prefer black men over white men. Do they mean black men in general? And why specifically white men, not Asian, Latin. Then I realize it is usually a white man asking. Would they be as offended if I was with a Puerto Rican or with a Jewish guy? Technically they are not white. So if that is what someone is saying, they are prejudice against black men. It’s past that time. We got past that many years ago.So maybe I am being prejudice, but do only white men ask these questions?
Sometimes black men ask me, because they think they have more of a chance. They say oh, do you only like black men because I am black, so do you want to suck my cock? So now you think because you are black I am going to drop to my knees.(Laughs) Yeah, maybe they do need a couple more qualifications besides just the color of their skin.
Yeah, it doesn’t work that way. Sometimes people are being a little close-minded. They want to put you in a box and I don’t fit in a box. Other than that doing interracial has never affected my career obviously, and in fact I think it has broadened my fan base because there are lots of people who want to see interracial.

Nicely put. I asked your fans for questions and one of them wanted to know if you think black men are better lovers, so I guess this is a good place to ask that.
I think that it has nothing to do with your skin color. I think it has everything to do with what is in your head and your heart. Nothing to do with what is in your pants because guys put too much weight into what is in their pants and what their bodies look like and that has nothing to do with it. To be honest that is the easy way out. A guy with a big cock thinks that that is all he needs. No man, that is not the whole package at all. Or guys that have ridiculously hot bodies think that that is all that matters, and no, your six-pack is not going to make me cum. So no, black men are not better lovers in general, that has nothing to do with it. So that is my answer.Thank you.
You’re welcome.

Another fan question, have you ever fallen in love with a co-star?
No, love and lust are two very different things and I am very good at compartmentalizing things. I did date someone that was in the industry. We worked together eventually, but we didn’t meet on set, have sex and all of a sudden I was head over heels. So that doesn’t count.What do you think is your greatest achievement in your career so far?
I want to say awards would be an easy answer, but I think my best achievement is that I have a lot of female fans who have contacted me and let me know that I have made a difference in their sex life at home. They went from not enjoying themselves and feeling insecure and being self conscience about their desires to being comfortable and confident and even feeling sexy and dominant. I think that is one of my biggest achievements is that I helped build and support people’s self esteem from far away, and that means a lot to me. I, as a girl that was young and insecure, decided that I was going to take my fear and dive right into it and that’s exactly what I did. I loved sex and was ridiculed for being too sexual in high school, and I said you know what? I don’t care what these people say. And of course awards are also a great achievement and I appreciate them, but being able to influence women is much more important in the long run.Are you sure you aren’t a forty year old in a twenty something body? You are so wise.
(Laughs) I don’t know. Maybe my mom lied to me. Maybe I have forgotten half my life. Perhaps.

But the awards are impressive too. You got Female Performer of the Year from XRCO and AVN.
I actually got pregnant at AVN when I won Female Performer of the Year. He was either cooking or just about to be cooking when I was hosting. That was my very first couple weeks of being pregnant.So you were hosting the AVN awards and cooking a baby.
Yes mam’, I believe I was. We found out I was pregnant Superbowl Sunday. A lot of people were surprised that I took a break after winning awards like that. But I didn’t need to keep going just because I got some great awards. The way I see it, I was given these awards for what I had already done.Yes, you won the top award, so you gave yourself a rest after that.
You know what? When somebody climbs a mountain and gets to the top, nobody looks at them and says why did you stop and why didn’t you go climb another mountain right after you got done climbing this one.You certainly deserved it.
Thank you. I worked hard for my break.

If people asked which movie of yours they should buy, what one would you say?
Pretty Filthy one or two. By far in those two I was given the most liberty and they are the closest to me being free to do what I wanted to do, with who I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it. Those are the best.They are really hot movies! What is TheRealToriBlack.com?
That is my blog site, for all things not sexual. When I get a moment I sit down and write. It is a free site for anyone who wants to read what I have to say or watch me talk about whatever I want to talk about, movies, music, politics. It’s life in a blog.You are going to be appearing at the XOExpo in September. What is happening there?
I am excited because it is a place for me to go meet my fans. And I have an exclusive DVD that is only going to be available for people who are meeting me in person. I am only making five hundred DVD’s so as soon as they are gone they’re done. It’s exclusive solo scenes that aren’t even on my website. We are going to do several different volumes of exclusive DVDs. This is the first of many, called “Your Eyes Say.” But whoever collects them all is going to get a prize at the end of a free DVD with more exclusive content.Last fan question, which sums up your wonderful happy life, put these in order, kittens, rainbows and unicorns.
I would say kittens, rainbows and unicorns.Do you have a message for your fans?
Thank you for watching and please cum again!